If the real Octoberfest is in September, then it should be good enough for the rest of us.

I think I've already taken this survey regardless, but I believe this link goes to the "survey taken" page no matter what.

This map has convinced me. Time for super blocks on the East side.

I tried the Rt 1 route yesterday and this intersection is downright terrifying. You can't trigger the walk signal until you make it to the ped island. Cars here never have a red, don't slow down at all, the turn is completely blind, and it's too loud to listen for a car. Incredibly dangerous.

Dems, if Trump announces he's burning puppies alive cause kids can't read, your job isn't to talk about early childhood literacy statistics. It's to say we shouldn't burn puppies and Trump is a psychopath.

The brilliant part of the C standing for nothing is it accomplishes all the goals. The confusion gets your attention. Going to the comments to talk about it drives engagement and gets retention. When you figure it out, boom, persuasion.

No disagreement here, cars are worse. Doesn't mean we don't need safe infrastructure. Besides children on ebike+ no separated infrastructure is horrible PR for bikes. People get real reactionary real fast.

Abundance of cheap ebikes and a dearth of quality facilities is a recipe for dead teenagers.

The issue is incarceration, not too many prisons. Fewer prisons doesn't mean fewer prisoners unless we address the upstream issue. It just means more crowded prisons. This is a normal prison, not an ICE concentration camp, right?

Seems like the common component here is "wider is worse". One ways seem to more easily accommodate a road diet since the other direction can be repurposed for active travel.

I hear this argument, and I'm not saying it's wrong but one way streets are so much easier to cross as a pedestrian. Less to look for and more opportunities to safely cross when not at an intersection. I really feel more comfortable walking grids with a lot of one ways.

The critique is that if you're gonna spend the money on busses it's better to spend it on route expansion and frequency as opposed to fare subsidies. Busses are usually already cheap and in most cases usability is more important than cost when it comes to getting people to switch modes.

I'd love to see a video. I was there but also didn't hear a single word from a single speaker, just the crowd's reactions. Didn't even realize Beyer was there until I saw the skeets when I got home.

I think the attitude is more "We can't implement any policy which would hurt a member of a disadvantaged class" even if that policy would be good for society at large or even members of that class at large. You can see this in the door dash discourse, speed cameras, urbanism discourse, etc

It doesn't matter how right you are (e.g. Gaza). If they lose more votes by conceding, then what incentive is being offered? You just place them in a no-win scenario.

The strategy of withholding votes to force concessions requires your bloc to be larger than the one the party loses by conceding. A decent portion of the American left seems to think their positions are more popular than they are. If your bloc is smaller you need to do persuasion not a vote strike